Smyrna times., 1887-12-07

ffon the SOu'''
,,.,,ntv and State Items.
OO''1 S,oiness of the Wilmington
Ines aoe has more than doubled in
r. mast ten years.
n.or n Brennan, treasurer of the
PeI tn 6 Ear Wheel Company, of Will
loOasm died on Saturday evening.
number of gunners are taken
a., a The Delaware Railroad every day
d9 ?'5 a full complement OF dogs and
.booI of sulphur bottom whales
A scared scar of the Delaware capes,
naJ I 5as awakened the interest OF fish
~, marriage of J. B. Conner of
In, Inc and Miss Annie Seward of
I'.tIo Creek Neck is announced for
tomorrow.
r.o Methodist Sunday-school of
n1 inT is preparing the cantata of
pT IwvSmIanuei." to be rendered Christ
mas night.
~, Sarah A. Wilson, widow of Capt.
IN p Wilson and mother of Rev J.
!0T d Wilson. D. D., Samuel J. Wilson
a. i Il w. w. w. Wilson, died in
a Tiito on Thursday, aged 66 years.
Uoloottites II is said. have had
Inf of the local hundred lead
q. and the word has been passed
S Sogn the line to nominate only Con-
Sontion men on the Legislative ticket.
Irving Boggs, a young printer of
Doyer. left for Cape Charles City on
Saturday night to take charge of
naner at that place. J. Clyde Davis,
sn6tber Dover typo, on Thursday
morning will leave for ChestertOwn,
Nd with the same object in view.
The officers of the Delaware Nation
al Guards at Dover last week elected
Cantaip George w. Marshall, of Com
pa6v B. Milford, Northumberland of
tbe First Regiment. His predecessor,
4 G Bowie. of Dover, resigned during
tbe encampment at Rehoboth last July.
Some Of our gunners, in wandering
about the country will encounter some
ala notices 10 pIssers but nothing
90 artistic as one in another county,
noticed BY an exchange: Eny pursOn
ketched on these grounds; or cows
or wimen: will be libul to fine imself
inter skrape."
Thomas Batson, Howard Rice, Alex
snder POulson and John Bradley, with
IS others, all negroes, were brought
before the Municipal Court Sunday
morning, charged with gambling. The
four men above named were each held
in $1,000 bail for appearance at the
next term Of Court of General Sessions.
The executors of the late Judge
Wootten sold the Ebbitt House, No.
1907 Market street, Wilmington, at
public sale on Saturday. The property
was started at $4,000, and the price
advanced slowly until it reached S1O,-
615. which was the successful bid,
made by Joseph L. Carpenter, Jr.
There is a mortgage on the property Of
5000.
Amovement is on foot among the
young men of Dover to raise funds for
the erection of a monument to the
memory of Caesar Rodney, says Tn,
hisr: The body lies in an open ield
Cd the Pardee farm in Jones' Neck
about four miles from Dover, with
nothing to mark its resting place but
ahrge rough stone upon which is in
scrbed nothing but the name of hin
who lies underneath.
Awarm contest is being waged a
this time between Alexander B. COope
eslr Of New Castle, and Lewis G. Van
degrift, esq.,, of Wilmington, for tn,
position Of .. S. District Attorney 70
tbs district. The term of Mr.. Patter
son, the present officer, will expire in
snort time. Vandegrift, it will b
recollected, led the WolcOtt forces il
The last State Convention. He ais
wanted to go on the stump in New
Castle County in opposition to chang
ing the Constitution. Cooper it
thought will win.
The papers give an account of
thrilling adventure of DIR. Cahall {
frederiea last week. 1t is a littl
singular that all the incidents.-th
man dressed in woman's clothes, tn
dropping Of the whip and the latte
geI9ng out to get it, the finding of
loaded pistol in the muff, the effort of
confederate further on trying to cate
.le Orldle of his horse and the doctC
nirng two pistol shots at him from til
pistol left in the muff &C., are the exa,
Incidents Of a similar event which o.
gifed some weeks ago near Philade
gua and published in the daily paper
us singular coincidence.
PRESENT indications point to a live
suu interesting contest for the Dem
Tauc nomination for the sheriffalty
I ANY, Castle County next June. Alv;
HleG mas been fairly in the field sin
@g last nomination, aud is bent
ppaAag a determined fight. Peter
T Tug Is now in the field for a thus
3 campaign, while John P. Mex
S .u 1Onn J. Toner, of New Castle hu
eli Will both go into the fight for
IL worth. Other candidates are Ii
W appear any day, and to add
T Js uncertainty, it is altogether prot
Gs e. mat Purnell J. Lynch, of
.o solges hundred, with his strong D
ssI lSi following, may again enter I
BAY Sr GO TO BULGARIA.-The Rev,
Go -, wilson, D. D. presiding elder
noi. liver district, is about to be
~ 9'I W superintendent of the Bulgs
e5r .llsSlOn Of the Methodist Episco
Wall, VAIL. We know of no man in
foa o, q church better fitted for this u,
at man .ran DR.. Wilson, but the chul
essas SIe Will lose one of its most S
WIuu; workers, for no man in
more 'On conference has done {
ebn,.h 70 bring up the work of
anu 'nan he has. When he
bpFrv S' 5i presiding elder of the Sa
ssa3 district, the district was con,
W.T. NV .le worst of in the conferer
nu DSn ne left it last spring it st,
eldersSi an, I'VE out Of over 45O presid
and ,s districts in the whole chu
district e his administration the Dc
ws as' Ia, IS being enthused as il NJ
tbe R SelOre and, if we are not mista
eDes liver O district will lead the con
me p next spring. W
he DJC'e Q. Wilson is only second to
ilS bishop Taylor in::::his effort.
Bulgaasislng, and we predict that
Biz Gba aI mission, under the toucI
nos He s spirit. will be one of
MetSd successful mission fields in
viii IbO olst Episcopal church. VIII.
homs y great loss to the churc
he %;a i will be a grand acouisitio
wise 4 th;n work Of the church.
ferencc,aai es for the next General
INSECT doe 70 do will be to make him
BuIaeoIlary Bishop for the wor
sara and Ao;. nr.